{"id":234318,"date":"2026-07-03T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T01:37:16","slug":"crowds-welcome-brig-niagara-back-to-erie-after-a-year-away-for-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234318\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds welcome Brig Niagara back to Erie after a year away for repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greg Wohlford, Erie Times-News<\/p>\n<p>Updated Fri, July 3, 2026 at 12:47 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 0<\/p>\n<p>Crowds welcome Brig Niagara back to Erie after a year away for repairs<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Brig Niagara crew members ride atop masts as the historic ship returns to port in Erie, Pa., on July 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> (GREG WOHLFORD\/ERIE TIMES-NEWS)<\/p>\n<p>The wooden ship returned home from a $6.9 million upgrade and restoration at Bristol Marine&#8217;s Sample Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Wohlford, Erie Times-News Updated Fri, July 3, 2026 at 12:47 AM UTC 1 \/ 0 Crowds welcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-234318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}